Happy Thanksgiving 2024

2024 was an incredibly unique, special and heartfelt Thanksgiving. This was my first Thanksgiving to celebrate without my loving wife Tess by my side. I’ve been adjusting to the single life and in my mind doing pretty well.

I have found that in losing Tess I am also finding deeper relationships with friends and family in my life, including my daughter Lauren and her family/My family, her husband, Sam, and my two grandchildren Nolan, Happy Birthday 12 and Wes, 10 years old. Lauren and Sam invited me to stay with them and after thinking it over and debating between the peace in privacy or the chaos of the clan, my decision came down on the side of family and I am so blessed and so grateful.

There were tears of nostalgia but there were also tears of joy. Because we shared our feelings with each other in the moment, this was truly a very 

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 

I always loved this song and somehow on the night before my travels I was inspired to relive these memories of the life we built together.

Thanksgiving with the Fullers was wonderful. Sam prepared the most delicious farm raised, organic, smoked, turkey and we were surrounded by the over abundance of side dishes and deserts that we swear “We will never bring this much food again” each year.

By spending the nights in their home I was able to be there for Nolan’s birthday in the morning and witness his unmitigated joy over football cards and sports fashion.